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Deathstroke : Right on page one, third panel: observing an assault team facing off against Slade Wilson in Moscow.
She's behind and to the right of the assault team; when you're facing Deathstroke the Terminator, you really don't want to be anywhere near his enemies.
She's behind a concrete plinth, or maybe she can't be harmed by bullets, even the extra-special mega-deadly ones Deathstroke shoots.
Demon Knights : Time traveling again?
She's in the Dark Ages among the marching, conquering army heading for Alba Sarum (page 7).
It's a splash page so here's a closer view of her, in her familiar red buttoned cloak.
Hiding behind the giant "n." Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.
: She appears smack-dab in the middle of a two-page spread of Frank battling monsters in Bone Lake, Washington (pages 17-18).
She does not choose calm places to visit, does she?
Also present: a "foom" sound effect, presumably on loan from Marvel.
Green Lantern : ...and then she appears in the Coast City crowd as Hal Jordan has a conversation with Carol Ferris (page 12, panel 4).
Nothing world-changing or dramatic here, if you don't count Hal asking Carol out for a date in the next panel.
Grifter : Grifter five-finger-discounts a hat and scarf from a New Orleans costume shop (page 14, lower left panel) and Red-Hooded Woman is there!
Wait a minute...red coat...knows when you're naughty and nice...I think we're on the right track here.
She's Ms. Santa Claus!
Eh, possibly not.
Legion Lost : Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, in an atypical setting for the Legion of Super-Heroes: the 21st century!
31st century escaped criminal Alastor is tearing up the town (page 10, top panel).
How bad is his rampage of destruction?
He has totaled Van Halen's car.
Mister Terrific : In London, the World's Third Smartest Man is too busy chasing battle-suited CEO Miles Dalton across London to notice the Woman in the Red Hood in the crowd (page 4, panel 2).
Red Lanterns : Page 16, top panel: In Small Ockdon (a UK fictionopolis in the DC Universe), the Red-Hooded Woman watches as the grandsons of a murdered mugging victim address their blood-spitting rage.
Is this the origin of a new Red Lantern?
Ehhhhhhh...might be!
Resurrection Man : She might not be immediately obvious, so I've highlighted her appearance here to save you many minutes searching (page 15, panel 1), while Mitch Shelley flees the scene of the plane crash that killed him (Spoiler: He got better).
Suicide Squad : Nobody notices Red-Hooded Woman in the ultra-secret torture room (page 4, panel 2) holding Deadshot captive.
It's a strong argument towards the theory that no one can see her.
Except us.
We are the most powerful beings in the DC Universe!
Superboy : Zaniel Templar arrives at N.O.W.H.E.R.E.
to order the release of Superboy from the virtual reality world (page 19, panel 1), and Dr. Caitlin Fairchild isn't happy about it.
And the RHW is there...not to see Superboy released, but the landing of Templar's helicopter.
Superboy narrates "There is someone else, too.
No.
Some...thing."
Is he detecting Templar...or our mysterious woman?
We're now halfway through the New 52 and a few more patterns begin to emerge.
Although we have seen her travel to or exist in other time periods, we have not yet seen the Red-Hooded Woman off of Planet Earth.
There are extensive off-planet scenes in Green Lantern and Red Lanterns, but her appearances in those books take place on Earth.
Nor does she appear in Superboy's virtual reality or the Ant Hill, S.H.A.D.E.
's microversal headquarters in Frankenstein .
We also see her in a cloak of different shades of red, violet, and sometimes even grey, with subtle design differences from appearance to next.
I'm going to chalk that up to different artists rather than an in-story shape-changing ability.
Week Three: Batman : At the bottom of the first panel on page one, the Red-Hooded Woman stands near, but not with, Gotham City homeless warming themselves around a burning garbage can.
Her glowing eyes give her the look of a Jawa, but I think we can discount that theory.
Unless she later says "utini," I'm not counting that as a possibility.
Birds of Prey : In the Gotham City of "two weeks ago," she stands in a doorway as Black Canary is tailed to a meeting with Barbara Gordon (page 8, panel 3).
She doesn't notice the woman in a red hood in the next doorway.
Blue Beetle : El Paso, Texas: She watches as Jaime Reyes flees the pursuing Venom (page 17, bottom panel).
No, sorry, not Venom, but an assassin sent to capture the beetle scarab from the Brotherhood of Evil.
Captain Atom : She's in a crowd of onlookers in New York as Captain Atom battles radioactive meteors from a nuclear plant hit by a volcano (page 18, panel 1).
Busy day for Cap there.
Catwoman : If we weren't all so busy watch Batman and Catwoman boink in that last book, we might have spotted her on Catwoman 's page 8: in the large first panel, a hedonistic party of a Gotham City criminal mob is infiltrated by Catwoman and the Red-Hooded Woman.
Catwoman's serving drinks, RHW's just watching.
As we've learned by now, "she likes to watch."
DC Universe Presents: Deadm an : Page 2, panel 3: the Woman in the Red Hood stands behind clowns at Deadman's circus.
Nobody likes to look at clowns.
She is clearly, as Monty Python taught, a master of not being seen.
Green Lantern Corps : Another comic book with outer space action and still she only appears on Earth -- in, as we're reminded, Space Sector 2814 (page 9, panel 2).
She's standing directly between construction workers -- some facing her directly -- and John Stewart's power ring-created architecture plans.
AT this point it's clear she's invisible to human (Kryptonian, Martian) senses and technology (CCTV and Lantern rings), and most important, invisible to Batman .
And he sees everything (as we saw in Catwoman ).
Legion of Super-Heroes : At last!
Concrete proof she can travel off-world, to the planet Panoptes in the 31st Century (page 7, first panel).
She's watching Chameleon infiltrate a base on the border of Dominator space, but still, she's there at one of the quietest moments of the book.
She's either not looking for specifically important periods in time, or these relatively peaceful moments are later to be of great importance.
My cynical guess/theory: The DC New 52 creators were told to toss a cameo in each issue and like many things in analyzing superhero comic books, I may be overthinking specific appearances.
That said, I bet she can keep track of all forty-seven thousand six hundred twelve active members of the Legion, and their civilian names and home planets.
Nightwing : In Gotham City, Red-Hooded Woman is in the stands at Haly's Circus when Dick Grayson returns (page 12, panel 2).
That's the second time she's been to the circus in one month.
I hope she's getting her circus frequent guest card punched.
Red Hood and the Outlaws : Let's get this out of the way first: she's not on this page: So you can stop staring at that page for hours at a time.
In fact, she doesn't even pop in on the heroes -- she's outside a Chicago slaughterhouse (page 16, panel 1) for the "B" plot of someone discovering via internet that Starfire's on Earth.
R.H.W.
's very clearly hovering in this panel, but her cloak appears white.
Artistic license, probably?
More important, what's she here for?
What's she looking at?
A truck full of sausages?
Supergirl : With her new-found super-hearing, Supergirl's overwhelmed by deafening random noises and sounds from around the globe (bottom of page 14) including quotes we've seen spoken in Nightwing, Aquaman , and Birds of Prey .
Nightwing is set in Gotham under night-dark skies, and there's storm lightning in the sky.
Aquaman is in a Boston seafood restaurant at sunset.
It's a rainy night in Gotham City when Starling quips about being damned in Birds of Prey .
It's dawn in Russia, as the rising sun fuels Kara's superpowers.
That scene in Gotham City (long set in DC history as located on the East Coast) can't be pure night at the same time it's sunset in Boston, but it could be a very dark dusk exaggerated by the pouring rain on the Birds of Prey's side of town and the fast-approaching storm around Nightwing.
If this is the case, then whether by intent or design, this timing is all absolutely accurate .
Many timezones encompass Siberia including twelve hours after East Coast time.
In other words, dusk on the US's east coast equals dawn in parts of Siberia.
That's the kind of cool synchronicity that makes me love shared-universe fiction, whether the creators planned this or not.
(And oh, yes, the Red-Hooded Woman is there, too.)
Wonder Woman : The Woman in the Red Hood is watching from the woods as Diana and Zola face off against murderous centaurs in Virginia (page 17, panel 4).
I don't care how expert Wonder Woman is, that's definitely not a proper dressage mount there.
After examining the first three weeks of the New 52, we can start to put together a rough timeline of some of the stories: The beginning of Birds of Prey #1 and the end of Nightwing #1 take place simultaneously with the appearance of Supergirl on Earth in Supergirl #1.
The Red-Hooded Woman makes appearances (although likely not in this chronological order) two weeks before the events at the beginning of Birds of Prey .
On the morning of the day BoP begins, she appears at Haly's Circus to watch Dick Grayson arrive; that evening she appears in Boston to watch Aquaman order but not eat a seafood dinner, then almost instantly to watch Kara Zor-El being attacked in Siberia.
Instantly... or simultaneously ?
Is the Red-Hooded Woman cross-crossing her own personal history by traveling in time?
How much of a master of time is she, anyway?
(And do we know any other red/purple hooded masters of time?)
New 52 Week Four: All Star Western : Back in Gotham City of the 1880s, the Red-Hooded Woman is more difficult to spot than Waldo in a sea of cowboys, frontiersman, saloon girls, guns for hire, and stuffed animal heads (page 10, panel top panel).

Deathstroke : Right on page one, third panel: observing an assault team facing off against Slade Wilson in Moscow.

She's behind and to the right of the assault team; when you're facing Deathstroke the Terminator, you really don't want to be anywhere near his enemies.

She's behind a concrete plinth, or maybe she can't be harmed by bullets, even the extra-special mega-deadly ones Deathstroke shoots.

Demon Knights : Time traveling again?

She's in the Dark Ages among the marching, conquering army heading for Alba Sarum (page 7).

It's a splash page so here's a closer view of her, in her familiar red buttoned cloak.

Hiding behind the giant "n." Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.

: She appears smack-dab in the middle of a two-page spread of Frank battling monsters in Bone Lake, Washington (pages 17-18).

She does not choose calm places to visit, does she?

Also present: a "foom" sound effect, presumably on loan from Marvel.

Green Lantern : ...and then she appears in the Coast City crowd as Hal Jordan has a conversation with Carol Ferris (page 12, panel 4).

Nothing world-changing or dramatic here, if you don't count Hal asking Carol out for a date in the next panel.

Grifter : Grifter five-finger-discounts a hat and scarf from a New Orleans costume shop (page 14, lower left panel) and Red-Hooded Woman is there!

Wait a minute...red coat...knows when you're naughty and nice...I think we're on the right track here.

She's Ms. Santa Claus!

Eh, possibly not.

Legion Lost : Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, in an atypical setting for the Legion of Super-Heroes: the 21st century!

31st century escaped criminal Alastor is tearing up the town (page 10, top panel).

How bad is his rampage of destruction?

He has totaled Van Halen's car.

Mister Terrific : In London, the World's Third Smartest Man is too busy chasing battle-suited CEO Miles Dalton across London to notice the Woman in the Red Hood in the crowd (page 4, panel 2).

Red Lanterns : Page 16, top panel: In Small Ockdon (a UK fictionopolis in the DC Universe), the Red-Hooded Woman watches as the grandsons of a murdered mugging victim address their blood-spitting rage.

Is this the origin of a new Red Lantern?

Ehhhhhhh...might be!

Resurrection Man : She might not be immediately obvious, so I've highlighted her appearance here to save you many minutes searching (page 15, panel 1), while Mitch Shelley flees the scene of the plane crash that killed him (Spoiler: He got better).

Suicide Squad : Nobody notices Red-Hooded Woman in the ultra-secret torture room (page 4, panel 2) holding Deadshot captive.

It's a strong argument towards the theory that no one can see her.

Except us.

We are the most powerful beings in the DC Universe!

Superboy : Zaniel Templar arrives at N.O.W.H.E.R.E.

to order the release of Superboy from the virtual reality world (page 19, panel 1), and Dr. Caitlin Fairchild isn't happy about it.

And the RHW is there...not to see Superboy released, but the landing of Templar's helicopter.

Superboy narrates "There is someone else, too.

No.

Some...thing."

Is he detecting Templar...or our mysterious woman?

We're now halfway through the New 52 and a few more patterns begin to emerge.

Although we have seen her travel to or exist in other time periods, we have not yet seen the Red-Hooded Woman off of Planet Earth.

There are extensive off-planet scenes in Green Lantern and Red Lanterns, but her appearances in those books take place on Earth.

Nor does she appear in Superboy's virtual reality or the Ant Hill, S.H.A.D.E.

's microversal headquarters in Frankenstein .

We also see her in a cloak of different shades of red, violet, and sometimes even grey, with subtle design differences from appearance to next.

I'm going to chalk that up to different artists rather than an in-story shape-changing ability.

Week Three: Batman : At the bottom of the first panel on page one, the Red-Hooded Woman stands near, but not with, Gotham City homeless warming themselves around a burning garbage can.

Her glowing eyes give her the look of a Jawa, but I think we can discount that theory.

Unless she later says "utini," I'm not counting that as a possibility.

Birds of Prey : In the Gotham City of "two weeks ago," she stands in a doorway as Black Canary is tailed to a meeting with Barbara Gordon (page 8, panel 3).

She doesn't notice the woman in a red hood in the next doorway.

Blue Beetle : El Paso, Texas: She watches as Jaime Reyes flees the pursuing Venom (page 17, bottom panel).

No, sorry, not Venom, but an assassin sent to capture the beetle scarab from the Brotherhood of Evil.

Captain Atom : She's in a crowd of onlookers in New York as Captain Atom battles radioactive meteors from a nuclear plant hit by a volcano (page 18, panel 1).

Busy day for Cap there.

Catwoman : If we weren't all so busy watch Batman and Catwoman boink in that last book, we might have spotted her on Catwoman 's page 8: in the large first panel, a hedonistic party of a Gotham City criminal mob is infiltrated by Catwoman and the Red-Hooded Woman.

Catwoman's serving drinks, RHW's just watching.

As we've learned by now, "she likes to watch."

DC Universe Presents: Deadm an : Page 2, panel 3: the Woman in the Red Hood stands behind clowns at Deadman's circus.

Nobody likes to look at clowns.

She is clearly, as Monty Python taught, a master of not being seen.

Green Lantern Corps : Another comic book with outer space action and still she only appears on Earth -- in, as we're reminded, Space Sector 2814 (page 9, panel 2).

She's standing directly between construction workers -- some facing her directly -- and John Stewart's power ring-created architecture plans.

AT this point it's clear she's invisible to human (Kryptonian, Martian) senses and technology (CCTV and Lantern rings), and most important, invisible to Batman .

And he sees everything (as we saw in Catwoman ).

Legion of Super-Heroes : At last!

Concrete proof she can travel off-world, to the planet Panoptes in the 31st Century (page 7, first panel).

She's watching Chameleon infiltrate a base on the border of Dominator space, but still, she's there at one of the quietest moments of the book.

She's either not looking for specifically important periods in time, or these relatively peaceful moments are later to be of great importance.

My cynical guess/theory: The DC New 52 creators were told to toss a cameo in each issue and like many things in analyzing superhero comic books, I may be overthinking specific appearances.

That said, I bet she can keep track of all forty-seven thousand six hundred twelve active members of the Legion, and their civilian names and home planets.

Nightwing : In Gotham City, Red-Hooded Woman is in the stands at Haly's Circus when Dick Grayson returns (page 12, panel 2).

That's the second time she's been to the circus in one month.

I hope she's getting her circus frequent guest card punched.

Red Hood and the Outlaws : Let's get this out of the way first: she's not on this page: So you can stop staring at that page for hours at a time.

In fact, she doesn't even pop in on the heroes -- she's outside a Chicago slaughterhouse (page 16, panel 1) for the "B" plot of someone discovering via internet that Starfire's on Earth.

R.H.W.

's very clearly hovering in this panel, but her cloak appears white.

Artistic license, probably?

More important, what's she here for?

What's she looking at?

A truck full of sausages?

Supergirl : With her new-found super-hearing, Supergirl's overwhelmed by deafening random noises and sounds from around the globe (bottom of page 14) including quotes we've seen spoken in Nightwing, Aquaman , and Birds of Prey .

Nightwing is set in Gotham under night-dark skies, and there's storm lightning in the sky.

Aquaman is in a Boston seafood restaurant at sunset.

It's a rainy night in Gotham City when Starling quips about being damned in Birds of Prey .

It's dawn in Russia, as the rising sun fuels Kara's superpowers.

That scene in Gotham City (long set in DC history as located on the East Coast) can't be pure night at the same time it's sunset in Boston, but it could be a very dark dusk exaggerated by the pouring rain on the Birds of Prey's side of town and the fast-approaching storm around Nightwing.

If this is the case, then whether by intent or design, this timing is all absolutely accurate .

Many timezones encompass Siberia including twelve hours after East Coast time.

In other words, dusk on the US's east coast equals dawn in parts of Siberia.

That's the kind of cool synchronicity that makes me love shared-universe fiction, whether the creators planned this or not.

(And oh, yes, the Red-Hooded Woman is there, too.)

Wonder Woman : The Woman in the Red Hood is watching from the woods as Diana and Zola face off against murderous centaurs in Virginia (page 17, panel 4).

I don't care how expert Wonder Woman is, that's definitely not a proper dressage mount there.

After examining the first three weeks of the New 52, we can start to put together a rough timeline of some of the stories: The beginning of Birds of Prey #1 and the end of Nightwing #1 take place simultaneously with the appearance of Supergirl on Earth in Supergirl #1.

The Red-Hooded Woman makes appearances (although likely not in this chronological order) two weeks before the events at the beginning of Birds of Prey .

On the morning of the day BoP begins, she appears at Haly's Circus to watch Dick Grayson arrive; that evening she appears in Boston to watch Aquaman order but not eat a seafood dinner, then almost instantly to watch Kara Zor-El being attacked in Siberia.

Instantly... or simultaneously ?

Is the Red-Hooded Woman cross-crossing her own personal history by traveling in time?

How much of a master of time is she, anyway?

(And do we know any other red/purple hooded masters of time?)

New 52 Week Four: All Star Western : Back in Gotham City of the 1880s, the Red-Hooded Woman is more difficult to spot than Waldo in a sea of cowboys, frontiersman, saloon girls, guns for hire, and stuffed animal heads (page 10, panel top panel).